When Booker T. Washington stated in his 1895 "Atlanta Exposition Address" that "the opportunity [for blacks] to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house," he believed that race relations would improve if . A) African Americans focused on economic advancement and remained patientB) African Americans defended themselves with riflesC) African Americans left the United StatesD) white Americans understood the poverty in which many African Americans lived

A) African Americans focused on economic advancement and remained patient

Explanation:

Booker T. Washington as one of the respected African American was trying to  let other fellow African Americans to see to the need of being focused to economic advancement.

This speech was a way of assuring the white leaders in the Southern states about the blacks working meekly and submiting to the leadership authority of the white in exchange for the assurances that the white leaders would gurantee that the blacks would recieve basic education and rule of law if there should be need to seek justices.

i belive the classic sword and a shield would do

the answer is a. since they were a huge producer of cotton and wanted the most money for it.